Dean_Ornish02CNN reports on the impact of Medicare’s new intensive cardiac rehab program that was created by preventive and integrative medicine physician Dean Ornish, MD.

This piece, about a senior couple with family histories of catastrophic heart disease, illustrates the combination of personal life factors and [click to continue…]

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Webinar series examines the comparisons, which are many and important.

Earlier this month I had the opportunity to create a series of webinars with IntegrativePractioner.com that looks at social media trends and factors in local markets that are becoming essential for integrative and holistic practices. With research showing that consumers prefer local business with a social presence, the medium is no longer optional. [click to continue…]

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@IP_SM

by Taylor Walsh on October 4, 2012

in Hospitals,Integrative Medicine,Social Media

@IP_SM is a Twitter handle that I hope will help encourage integrative practitioners to comment on the use and advantages of social media in their business and professional work.

Also created is the hashtag: #IP_SM that can be
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The social patient network CureTogether reported in February the results of study among 227 people who rated 31 treatments for bipolar disorder. It is one of the first such studies that blend social media, patient-stated outcomes with integrated therapy options.

“Patients rate regimented sleep, reduced alcohol, and exercise as helpful for their symptoms, as well as yoga, mindfulness meditation, and Lamictal*.”
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Duke Integrative Medicine director Adam Perlman
on this transformational clinical healing and wellness model

In the following audio interview link with Frank Stacio, host of “The State of Things” at public radio WUNC in Charlotte, Duke Integrative Medicine director Adam Perlman explains the current state, underlying principles and clinical application of integrative medicine in one of the most lucid explanations of the subject that I have come across. [click to continue…]

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New NCCAM Blog Moves Closer to Public Experience

June 19, 2012

In the last couple of years, NCCAM has gradually developed its web site to be more responsive to public interest in CAM and integrative medicine. In May it took another step and launched a blog written by director Josephine Briggs, MD. Readers may make comments on each post, which are reviewed before being added. In [...]

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IOM President Fineberg on a Sustainable Health System

March 12, 2012

In an article published this week in the New England Journal of Medicine, Harvey V. Fineberg, MD, president of the Institute of Medicine, presented a vision for resolving the pervasive and recalcitrant problems that plague what he “purposefully refers to a ‘health system’ rather than a ‘health care system.’” But he buried his own personal [...]

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Dueling Mainstream Media Views on Integrative Medicine

June 27, 2011

Contentious spring blasts by Forbes, The EconomistOffset by careful analysis in Atlantic Monthly. I don’t know what happened earlier this year to draw the attention of the mainstream media to integrative medicine, but the subject has been batted around this spring among Forbes, The Economist — both of which expressed caustic disbelief that integrative medicine [...]

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At the Intersection of Wellness and Hospitality

May 31, 2011

Jeremy McCarthy manages the worldwide spas of Starwood Hotels, where he works, as his Twitter bio says “…at the intersection of wellness, positive psychology and hospitality.” He also writes a very insightful personal blog, The Psychology of Wellbeing in which he draws on wide range of current developments in personal health, wellness and healing approaches [...]

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Prince of Wales on Earth’s Stressed Food Systems

May 10, 2011

Prince Charles’ keynote at the May 4, 2011 Future of Food conference at Georgetown University is well worth the viewing. Like Al Gore, who spent 25 years educating himself about the earth’s climate, the Price of Wales has spent years immersed in food and sustainability, including 26 years “farming” himself.

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